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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Friday announced a deal with the Senate’s Democratic leadership on an unemployment insurance amendment to the coronavirus relief package after the Senate ground to a complete halt for nine hours while both parties wooed him to support their competing proposals.

The United States added 379,000 jobs in February, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department—far surpassing the 198,000 new jobs economists were expecting—as hiring rebounded in the leisure and hospitality sectors.

America's largest ESG fund - the Parnassus Core Equity Fund - has no direct investments in renewable energy companies.

Citing privacy concerns, Google says it won’t use technologies that track individuals across multiple websites.

More than 20 years ago, a group of former salesmen for Houston software entrepreneur Robert Brockman sued their old boss, claiming in court that he had deprived them of commissions by directing a portion of customer payments to a Cayman Islands entity.

Billionaire Elon Musk has approached officials of a Texas county where SpaceX has a private launch site and rocket production facility about incorporating a new city to be called Starbase, officials said.

The world’s largest publicly-listed hedge fund has decided that the Reddit mob is now too influential to be ignored.

Stocks, particularly shares of tech companies, have been buffeted by volatile moves in government-bond markets.

They collectively shelled out $2.3 billion, more than twice as much as Joe Biden’s entire campaign.

Over the weekend, the U.S. House posted a first draft version of the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021” – a $1.9 trillion emergency aid package to help America recover from the coronavirus pandemic.